Rembrandt has Warts!
I just received my issue of Smithsonian today and was pleasantly surprised with a great article of Rembrandt. If you happen to be waiting in a doctors office in the next few days you might want to check it out. Other than that, we don’t keep the heat on down here at the church building on throughout the week to save money, so it’s really cold in the office… brrrr…
The article really brought to light something I didn’t think about before. This is that Rembrandt saw the beauty in the everyday people. Though he was commissioned for many famous people, when he painted on his own, it was the everyday people that he captured in such an eloquent fashion.
Often I get caught up in painting or drawing the ideals rather than see the beauty right around me. Since this is the week of thanksgiving, think about the beauty that is right around you, that you may walk right by and never notice. Capture it. Savor it, and let your brush, your pencil, or your pastels capture your heart rather than just what your eye sees.
Tags: Rembrandt, paint, painting, artist, art history, art, Dutch, painters, painter, beauty
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